Tim Bothwell, an assistant on the Canadian Women's Olympic Team that won a gold medal at the 2006 Olympics, begins his sixth season at Vermont in 2010-11. He was named the Catamounts head women's hockey coach on June 5, 2006.

The Catamounts have made strides every season with Bothwell at the helm. In 2009-10 the Catamounts won ten games, a Division I program record, including five in Hockey East play, matching a team record. UVM also notched a program record three wins against top 10 teams last season, defeating No. 4 New Hampshire, No. 4 Clarkson, and No. 9 Providence.

Prior to heading to Vermont, Bothwell spent three seasons coaching women's hockey in Canada. He served as the associate head coach for the Calgary Oval X-Treme, first in the NWHL, then with the same team when they moved to the recently formed Western Women's League. In 2003-04, Bothwell assisted Tomas Pacina in leading the team to a record of 23-5-1 and the NWHL League Championship. In 2004-05 the team posted a record of 27-5-4 overall and went unbeaten in the new WWHL with a 19-0-2 mark. The X-Treme went on to win the first ever WWHL League Championship.

From 2004 to 2006, Bothwell served as assistant coach for the Canadian National Women's Team. In 2004-05, the Canadians won the gold medal in the Four Nations Cup and the silver medal at the World Hockey Championship. In 2005-06, Bothwell was behind the bench as Team Canada won the gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino.

As an assistant coach with the national team, Bothwell was responsible for the team's penalty kill, working with the defense and individual skill development.

A native of Burlington, Ontario, Bothwell began his playing career as a three-year letter-winner at Brown (1974-78) as a member of the men's hockey team. He was a two-time captain for the Bears and was named to the All-ECAC Team as a senior. He also earned All-Ivy Team honors three straight years and is a member of the Brown University Athletic Hall of Fame. Bothwell helped lead the Bears to a third-place finish in the 1976 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship. That same year, Brown won the Ivy League Championship and advanced to the finals of the ECAC Tournament. He graduated from Brown in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and political science.

After completing his collegiate career, Bothwell signed as a free agent with the New York Rangers and played in the organization for four seasons (1978-82). During his stint in New York, Bothwell played for Herb Brooks and Fred Shero and was a teammate of Phil Esposito among others while with the Rangers. Following the 1982 season, Bothwell moved on to the St. Louis Blues organization and spent three years with the team. St. Louis made the Stanley Cup Playoffs each year Bothwell was with the team. Bothwell spent one season with the Hartford Whalers in 1985-86 before returning to the Blues for three more years to close out his NHL career. Overall, Bothwell played in 502 NHL games during his 11-year career.

Following his NHL career, Bothwell earned his first coaching experience as a player/assistant with the New Haven Nighthawks of the AHL (American Hockey League). Bothwell's first head coaching job came during the 1990 season when he took over the helm of the Medicine Hat Tigers of the WHL (Western Hockey League). Bothwell also served as the head coach of the Phoenix Roadrunners of the IHL (International Hockey League) for two seasons from 1992-1994, assisting their parent club the Los Angeles Kings during their run to the Stanley Cup Final in 1993.

In July 1994, Bothwell returned to the collegiate ranks taking over as head coach of the University of Calgary men's hockey team. The Dinos won two league championships and advanced to the national championship three times. Bothwell was named CIS National Coach of the Year in 1997.

In 2001, Bothwell left Calgary to return to the NHL, this time as an assistant coach with the Atlanta Thrashers. He spent two seasons behind the bench in Atlanta.

The 2011-12 season marks associate head coach Grant Kimball's third season with the Catamounts. At Vermont, Kimball manages recruiting, individual skill development, travel logistics and works closely with the defenseman. In 2010-11 the Catamounts held their opponents to 77 goals (2.33/game) a team record in the Hockey East era.

Kimball, a native of Harvard, Mass., came to Vermont after two seasons as an assistant coach with the University of North Dakota women's hockey program.

While at North Dakota, Kimball helped build the Fighting Sioux into a playoff contender in the WCHA. During Kimball's time in Grand Forks, UND posted a record number of league wins and points and earned a school-best fourth-place finish in the WCHA. Kimball also helped recruit several international players to the North Dakota program, including a pair of Olympians in Susanne Fellner (Germany) and Jorid Dagfinrud (Norway).

A total of 14 players were named to the WCHA All-Academic Team and forward Cassie Hanson garnered WCHA Scholar-Athlete and ESPN The Magazine All-Academic honors in Kimball's two seasons.

Prior to his stint with the Fighting Sioux, Kimball spent four years at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich. He spent three seasons as an assistant coach before being promoted to associate head coach for the 2006-07 campaign. Kimball also served as the recruiting coordinator for Wayne State and helped the Warriors compile 57 wins and a College Hockey America Conference Championship game appearance in 2007.

As Wayne State's recruiting coordinator, Kimball recruited the most productive freshmen class in the nation in the 2005-06 season as the newcomers scored 154 points. During his four years in Detroit, several student-athletes went on to earn various CHA honors, including three players who were named to the All-CHA First Team, six who garnered spots on the All-CHA Second Team and five who earned CHA All-Rookie accolades.

Prior to coaching at Wayne State, Kimball spent two seasons as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Lake Forest College (Illinois) of the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCAA Division III). He helped lead Lake Forest to 13th in the national rankings and a fourth-place finish in the western regional rankings in the 2002-03 RPI.

Kimball has additional experience serving with several other girls' teams at various levels. He was the director of the Michigan Regional Girls Development Camp in 2005 and 2006; co-coach of the USA Hockey Girls National Select U-14 Camp in 2005; head coach of Team Michigan in the Chicago Showcase Tournament in 2004 and 2005; and head coach of Team Illinois Girls U-15 and U-19 teams from 1996-2000.

Kimball played his collegiate hockey at Lake Forest College and was a defenseman for the Foresters from 1992-95. He earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1996.

A veteran coach at all levels of hockey, Mike Gilligan begins his sixth season with the UVM women's hockey program in 2011-12. He returned to Gutterson Fieldhouse joining Tim Bothwell's staff in the summer of 2006.

Gilligan, who has served as Assistant to the Director of Athletics for Special Projects since the spring of 2003, will continue to work on special projects while assisting the women's hockey program. He spent 19 seasons at the helm of the men's ice hockey program at Vermont.

After retiring from his head coaching duties at Vermont in 2003, Gilligan was an assistant coach with the United States Women's National Team for two and a half years. He served as assistant coach of the U.S. Women's Select Team that won the gold medal in the 2003 Women's Four Nations Cup and the U.S. Women's National Team that captured the gold medal at the 2005 International Ice Hockey Federation Women's World Championship. Gilligan was also on the bench during the U.S. Women's Olympic Team's bronze medal run at the 2006 Olympic Games in Torino.

While at the helm of the Catamounts, Gilligan posted a record of 279-289-46 and a career record of 419-348-49 as a collegiate head coach for 26 years. When Gilligan retired from his head coaching duties at Vermont in May of 2003 he ranked sixth among active coaches in career victories. He was the 18th coach in NCAA history to record 400 wins.

Gilligan's many coaching accomplishments at UVM include: producing six All-Americans, several NHL players, two ECAC Rookies of the Year, two ECAC Players of the Year, two ECAC goaltending crowns and two Hobey Baker Finalists.

A native of Beverly, Mass., Gilligan began his coaching career at his alma mater, Salem State, in 1975 where he compiled a .727 winning percentage (128-48-2, 6 yrs). He left Salem State to join Tim Taylor's coaching staff at Yale as an assistant and served as interim head coach during the 1983-84 season. In the spring of 1984, Gilligan was named the head coach at Vermont, the school's third since 1963.

Gilligan was a standout defenseman at Salem State and captained the Vikings for two years (1968-70). He became the school's first hockey player to earn All-America honors in 1968-69 and repeated the feat in 1969-70. Gilligan was inducted into the Salem State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986. In the spring of 2008, he received the Parker-York Award from the New England Hockey Writers Association for his lifetime contribution to hockey in the region.